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Indiana University Bloomington
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Core Faculty : Faculty & Staff

Kevin MartinKevin W. Martin

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Near Eastern
    Languages and Cultures
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of History

Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • M.A. at Georgetown University, 2000, Arab Studies
  • Ph.D. at Georgetown University, 2005, History of the Middle East and North Africa

Research Interests

  • Modern Middle East
  • Modern Levant (Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq)
  • Cultural history of the Modern Arab world

Contact Information

km66@indiana.edu
Goodbody Hall, Rm. 241
(812) 856-6861

Courses Recently Taught

  • Theory and Method in Middle East Historiography
  • Middle East History Through Literature and Film
  • The Cultural History of the Middle East
  • The Making of the Modern Middle East
  • Iraq and Syria in the Twentieth Century

Publication Highlights

  • “Presenting the ‘True Face of Syria’ to the World: Urban Disorder and Civilizational Anxieties at the First Damascus International Exposition,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, 42, no. 3 (2010), pp. 391–411.
  • Peasants into Syrians. International Journal of Middle East Studies, Feb 2009, Vol. 41, Issue 1, p. 4–6.
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